I'm having something similar with larger image files (~10MB) and inserting the image from Dropbox. Smaller images seem work fine though (~3MB). Pretty consistent for me.
My life is now complete. *Praises the demons that haunt his PC* I am actually really tempted to agree to the use of 'literally' instead of 'figuratively' here. Slightly off-topic and mainly unrelated to the bug itself: Could it be that ECC's image proxy was setup on December 2nd or 3rd?
My point is "How do you know it is actually figuratively and not literally? The evidence (i.e., bugs that target me) clearly hints that might actually be reality.".
I also suffered that issue when I posted certain drawings from Imgur in my "My Art" thread. Fortunately, I rarely suffered this since I now used DeviantArt picture as I did in Imgur.